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What is the incidence and characteristics of time-loss injuries in competitive fencing?
What is the incidence and characteristics of time-loss injuries in competitive fencing?
Time-loss injuries in competitive fencing are rare and primarily consist of lower extremity sprains and strains.
Supports low time-loss injury burden in fencing; hypothesis-generating for targeted lower-extremity prevention trials.
The rate of time-loss injury in competitive fencing is low. Although there are differences in the distribution of types and location of time-loss injuries by sex and discipline, the predominant characteristics (sprain/strain in the lower extremities) are similar to other sports with ballistic action in stop-start, rapid change-of-direction activity.
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